cherrybim- nothing. they havnt even looked in to the "allegations" made against him yet...
Shticky Guy, this week in the Ami they posted a list of what we can do for him and senate memebers #s 2 call... you can look it up there...
However, the most helpful thing we can do for him is 2 DAVEN DAVEN,DAVEN!!! Keep him in your tefillos always....
His Tehillim name is: Yaakov Yehuda ben Shaindel.
May Hashem grant him a yeshuah bikorov...

He invested in a rice fields venture with a group of swiss partners, one of whom has a brother involved in drugs so the Bolivian authorities think the capital used to purchase the real estate comes from dubious origin hence his shock arrest. However he has never been charged with any crime and the jail there is run by a mafia of violent and dangerous prisoners who are given completely free rein by the prison guards. A terrible story.

Dear .....
I am contacting you about the case of Mr Jacob Ostreicher who is presently being held in the Palmasola Prison in Bolivia. Mr Ostreicher, who is a US citizen and whose family lives in Brooklyn, New York, has been held in jail for many months based on accusations by the Bolivian government relating to investments he made there.
The government has failed to show that he has committed any crime or been involved in any wrongdoing, and he has not even been formally charged with any crime. The jail in which he is being held is a very dangerous one; its interior is controlled by the prisoners themselves, and Mr Ostreicher remains in very real danger while he is there, as has been reported by US media, including the Associated Press.
The US government continues to provide assistance to Bolivia. We need to demand that our citizens are taken care of and treated in a humane fashion, and that includes the speedy release of Mr Jacob Ostreicher.
Thank you,
....... (your name)

Who has sent their email that shows we care about a fellow Jew's life? Come on, post here after you have sent it. If we can have a thread where so many people posted that they had voted for a girl to win a few thousand dollars then we can for sure have the same to write in that we have sent an email to help save a jew's life!! Lets get a hundred posts here for this! Kol hamikayem nefesh achas miyisrael kiylu kiyeim olam malei...